- Harley: Jim. I'm going to engage a new man.
- Jim Bonn: Go ahead. Why bother me?
- Harley: It's Steve Nichols.
- Jim Bonn: [astonished] Steve Nichols?
- Harley: Don't you remember? He did time for a phony stock deal.
- Jim Bonn: Why do we want him around here?
- Harley: Don't you see? When we have to take it on the lam, this Nichols, with his past record...
- Jim Bonn: ...is a cinch to hold the bag, eh?
- Harley: Jim, I congratulate you. You're not as stupid as I thought you were.
- [Jim smiles, then looks offended]
- Steve Nichols, alias Steve Cummings: I've been a sucker. Steve Nichols, pounding the streets with a sign on his back for a buck a day. There's a laugh for you.